Dress-hook



N.R.GRAY.

DRESS HOOK.

(No Model.)

Patented Jan. 16, 1894.

mam/boa UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE".-

NELLIE R. GRAY, OF ELYRIA, OHIO.

DRESS-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 512,696, dated January16, 1894. 7

Application filed March 9, 1893. Serial No. 465,367. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NELLIE R. GRAY, acitizen of the United States,residing at Elyria, in the county of Lorain and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful Dress-Hook, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to the improvement in dress hooks in which the eyeis obstructed from slipping off from the end of the hook by means of ashort bend in the lower outside wires to the hook, projecting upwardnear the point, and also said wires extending forward beyond the bottomend of the hook to which end the fabric may be secured to which the hookis attached and the edge thereby prevented from turning backward andexposing the hook. I attain these objects by means of the mechanismillustrated in the accompanying drawing in which the figure is aperspective view of one form of my invention but various modificationsof the bending of the wires of which same is formed may be made withoutdeparting from my invention.

' The hook may be made of any suitable material, preferably wire ofproper size and bent into the form as shown in the drawing in which a isthe point of the hook, I) is the bend and c c are two'eyes formed forthe purpose of securing the inner end to the fabric to which same isattached. These eyes are formed by. bending the wire around outwardlyand then inwardly close to the body of the hook. The eyes thus formloops which are substantially closed on all sides.

at d are upwardly projecting bends in the wire, the office of which isto obstruct the eye from unhooking. These said wires are then carriedforward as far as desired beyond the end of the bottom of thehook andturned at right angles (in the drawing) with the eyes e e formed intheir extreme ends whereby the same may be secured to the material towhich it is desired to attach same. These projecting wires h h may beformed so as to lie along the outside of the body of the hook or theymay be turned inwardly and lie between the body of the hook, the forwardprojecting ends being formed in various ways and shapes to accomplishsubstantially the objects sought.

In the ordinary dress hook the same is only attached to the fabric bythe eyes a c and where the same is near the edge of the material theedge tends to turn backward from the hook when the hook is firmly drawnfor: ward, whereas in my construction the edge of the cloth' is furthersecured and fastened to the eyes e e and the stiffness of the wire ofwhich the hook is formed prevents the edge from turning or rolling backfrom the hook..

'Hooks have been described wherein the wire extends beyond the point ofthe hook and then returns, but does not form a close eye or loop. Such Ido not claim.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The dress hook consisting-of a single piece of wire having eyes or loopsat its ends, and having also eyes or loops formed by return bends of thewire which eyes are adjacent to the point of the hook, and havingupwardly extending bends in proximity to the point of the hook andbetween the eyes at the ends of the wire and the eyes near the hookpoint, all substantially as described.

NELLIE R. GRAY. Witnesses:

JAMES H. LEONARD, LELIA BoYN'roN.

